Walking Practice

Dolki Min
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Walking Practice

Ambrose
1/2/2024
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This was a weird one. It's written by a South Korean author so It's translated and it's a weird book already so... it's a little hard to follow sometimes. It's about an alien named Mumu that has crashed into the earth after their planet was exploded by enemies forcing them to escape. They have been living on Earth for around 15 years and have resorted to hunting humans. They tried eating all other sorts of food and nothing sat right with them until they started eating humans. They are very interesting... and lonely, that's one of the main themes of the book. They're very emotional in general swinging between moods at the snap of a finger. They look down on humans in general, rationalizing killing them because they are not on the same level. Their hunting consists of meeting up with a human having sex with them, and then biting their head off and sucking them dry like a vampire. The reason the book is so weird is because of 1: how unstable Mumu is as a main character and 2: because the book is also laying underlying themes of gender roles and hookup culture at the same time. It does this through the insights that Mumu has as an outsider looking in on human culture as an unbiased judge. I can see that this book has lots going on, I think if I read this in a couple of years I could enjoy it more. As of now, I come out confused and a little disappointed. It was "eh" for me. Points for uniqueness though, it sure isn't like anything I've read before.